Week 4

Good afternoon parents

Hopefully you have a lovely weekend and didn't get too wet at sport!! 

As part of the Keeping Safe Program (Protective Behaviours), we are beginning to look at the concept of public and private in the coming weeks. This includes looking at public and private places and then will move into body parts. Students will be introduced to the formal names for body parts and why it is necessary to know the anatomical names for our body parts.

Just a few messages for this week:  

 

OLC Mission Market Day and Feast Day 

This Friday we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of OLC and the feast of the Assumption of Mary. All day will be centered around Mary and raising money for some less fortunate people.

This year, the markets will look a bit different but we will still be focused on raising money for the Catholic Mission Australia with the profits of the day going to charities in Thailand. To assist, we are asking that children bring money that they have earned from doing jobs around the house so that they can understand the value of the money they are donating. We ask that the children bring no more than $20.00 (in coins) for the day.  We are running an activity stand where students can go ten pin bowling or throwing toilet rolls at a makeshift toilet.  As such there is no requirement for donations this year! 

Student Uniform  

Dear Parents, the staff and admin will be paying particular attention to the students uniform and standard of dress from now on. This includes your child wearing the correct uniform on the correct day, i.e. only wearing sport uniform on sport days. This also includes wearing the correct socks and neat and tidy hairstyles. Please ensure you check your child before they attend school.  

Character Strengths  

Dear Parents, currently at OLC we are focusing on modeling and observing different character strengths. The strengths that we will focus on are taken directly from the VIA Institute for Character. If you wanted to learn more about this please follow the link to the 24 character strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths  

This upcoming week we are looking for people who show Hope. Can you encourage your child to reflect on the following? 

Seesaw  

Thank you to those families that have connected to the SeeSaw families app since the start of the term. If you need another copy of the link or code, please let me know and I can email it to you.  

Homework 

Homework this week includes spelling, mental maths and the homework grid.  If you or your child have another way to practice their spelling words, please don't hesitate to try your way and let me know they are practicing. 

Stationary and supplies

I have been noticing that many students are running short of many of their stationary supplies.  Please discuss with your child how their glue, scrap book and other stationary supplies are going.  They may need restocking.

 

Important dates for Term 3

Mission Markets and OLC 25th anniversary Mass: Friday 13th August

OLC Open night: Wednesday 25th August (4.30 pm-5.30 pm)

Athletics Carnival: Thursday 26th August 

Assembly: Friday 17th September (please note this is a change to the previous date)

Pupil Free Day: Friday 27th August

School Photos: Thursday 9th September 

Book Week Dress up: Wednesday 22nd September

Enjoy the rest of the week!!!

Mr Mc